Co-housing not only saves money for these two families—and enabled them to buy a home, in the first place—it’s also allowed them to better weather hard times.
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These brothers are pushing for incremental infill development in Memphis, Tennessee, with a community they’re building just north of downtown.
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Strong Towns is partnering with Just Accounting for Health and Urban3 in a project to uncover the presence, and effects, of biases in tax assessment standards.
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This engineer offers a strategy for slowing down cars that could be a bridge between what communities want and what engineers want.
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Valentine’s Day never inspired our Neighborhood Storyteller…until she was recruited one year to write poems for total strangers in her community.
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Citizens can’t make informed decisions if they don’t know the financial condition of their government. This nonpartisan nonprofit is making those numbers both available and transparent.
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The things your town does to become more sustainable, resilient, and financially healthy are big news. So let’s tell the world!
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When it comes to transit mega project delays and overruns, there are typically two reactions: to trash the project mercilessly or unconditionally back it to the end. But there is a third option.
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Oysters, substacks, and polar bears. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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This week in High Value, Stark unveils the roadblocks the commission will face if they move forward with building a High Value grocery store in the community.
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This small business owner is being financially crushed because the City of Pasadena is forcing him to get more parking spaces—parking that his small business doesn’t need.
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Rabbi Donna Berman leads a community center serving neighbors in Hartford, CT.
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This YouTube channel introduces us to the hidden gems in some otherwise #PedestrianUnfriendly cities.
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When her marriage of 17 years ended, this now-single mother found herself without a home in an expensive city. The solution she found? Co-housing with two other single parents.
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What are some of the practical ways that faith communities can contribute to healthy economic ecosystems?
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Even people who know the historic benefits of duplexes (and the like) can be wary of re-legalizing them. We need to understand why if we want to effectively promote missing middle housing.
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If you love your community—both for what it is and for what it aspires to be—you should nominate it for this year’s Strongest Town Contest!
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San Antonio residents were working on a downtown road diet and neighborhood redevelopment…until TxDOT decided to completely ignore the will of 78% of local voters.
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The way our highways are built turn whole regions into featureless throughways. Slow down, though, and you’ll find value where you might never have noticed it before.
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This week we’ve got a special treat: both the video and audio from a conversation between Chuck Marohn and renowned urban planner and walkability expert Jeff Speck.
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